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Episode 132 is out and streaming now! In this episode we sit down with Dr. Kyle Strobel to talk about the nature of power via his book (co-authored with Jamin Goggin), 'The Way of the Dragon or the Way of the Lamb?' Listen or watch the interview below! youtube.com/watch?v=euZ35dVL…

Episode 131 is LIVE! In this episode we sit down with one of the most prolific authors of the last hundred years, Philip Yancey, to talk with him about his new memoir Where the Light Fell. youtube.com/watch?v=1L5AbId1…

Episode 130 is now available! In this episode, we share six rules for the art of having healthy conflict. Listen anywhere you podcast, or watch now on YouTube and Facebook! youtube.com/watch?v=NOA-AkSl…

In our latest episode, Glenn and Andrew sit down with Dr. Michelle Anthony to talk about the why, what, and how of developing good study habits. youtu.be/z8z-BHIdSTk

Part 2 is here! In this episode we pick up the conversation on attracting strong and capable leaders by talking about just what we mean by “strong and capable”. youtu.be/5rVFfmOiVh4

If you don’t know how to rest well, ultimately you won’t work well… by not resting well you won’t get your work done… youtube.com/watch?v=I4EFDlsC…

The arts also give us the skills we need to turn to others… when give our attention to the arts and they surprise us, it teaches me that the next time I’m with a person, if I’ll give them my attention, they will surprise us… youtube.com/watch?v=I2MicBDL…

Another part of this is our brokenness… the universe seems “riddled” to us because we are the ones who are “riddled”… in our brokenness, God teaches how to become truthful…  youtube.com/watch?v=I2MicBDL…

We need to recognize the good of difficulty… when something is demanding, it summons parts of yourself you didn’t know were there… so God is demanding in a way that summons out of us gifts we didn’t know we had… youtube.com/watch?v=I2MicBDL…

Proverbs, for instance, opens with a call to the young to learn wisdom… but to do that, you have to attend to “the dark sayings of the wise”…  youtube.com/watch?v=I2MicBDL…